Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steady man he was. They would wait for the fortune to come in July. Then she would give some money to Butcher Bachmann, who had been kind when she had her baby. Then they would see what they would do. ... Yes, Marie Drazdorf remembered a legend of an ancestor who went to the U. S. long...
...Because of ancestor worship," said Mr. Gray, "China is a sadly overpopulated country. This overpopulation and the ignorance of the people, coupled with the fact that great numbers of them are on the verge of starvation, makes it possible for employers to exploit them. They are herded into the cities and paid harely enough to live on. As a result China furnishes the most fertile soil for any sort of propaganda. Here one finds the most promising source of mob violence...
...Countess, "but I have had no opportunity of coming in contact with the American college boy. In France we know Boston as a big University town and a historical ground. As I came into Boston tonight. I saw the Bunker Hill monument all aglow, and I remembered my ancestor Lafayette who helped lay its corner stone. I am very glad to be here...
...those individuals from whom Charlestonians had learned to expect misery-a "dark" Chantrell, like her twin brother, Stephen. In him their hot strain from a Latin ancestor was provided with a safety outlet; his temper could boil over. Cordelia was mistress of her intensities, to her great misfortune, and it was she who resolved a grave dilemma into happiness for Stephen and tragedy for herself, tragedy punctuated by two pistol shots...
...ejected from the bug house by attendants and forfeit his sleep money. No less than 200 insect rest houses of a more or less similar nature are maintained throughout India by pious natives who realize that no bug is too insignificant to contain the reincarnated soul of an ancestor...